Important Events
- May 13 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia
- May 14 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
1787 in Music
- Aug 10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
- Aug 24 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526
- Oct 29 Opera "Don Giovanni", music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte premieres at the National Theater of Bohemia in Prague
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe
Louis-Jacques Daguerre
Sojourner TruthWorld Leaders in 1787
Louis XVI
King of France- William Pitt the Younger
British Prime Minister
Louis XVI
William Pitt the YoungerFamous People in 1787
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical Musician and Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFamous Weddings
- Mar 11 Naval officer Horatio Nelson (28) weds Frances Nisbet at Montpelier Estate on the island of Nevis
Famous Deaths
- Jan 1 Arthur Middleton, American signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 44
- Feb 12 Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75
- Feb 13 Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- Feb 13 Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat, dies at 67
- Mar 2 Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, dies at 73
